(This publish was first printed on 3 Feb 2014, it has been up to date and republished).
A part of the enjoyable of paper quilling is utilizing particular and new papers! Right this moment I’m going to point out you what a few of the jeweltone colours from Lake Metropolis Craft appear to be. It’s typically useful to see what colours would appear to be in a design earlier than committing to buying them. Once I first bought these metallic jeweltone quilling papers I didn’t know what to do with them. Since then I’ve labored out what kinds of designs these are greatest for, and I’ll be sharing what I’ve discovered works for me!
The very first thing to notice is that each one of those shiny and metallic papers are known as various things by totally different manufacturers. For instance, the Lake Metropolis Crafts jeweltones are much like the Quilled Creations and Paplin metallics. And the Lake Metropolis Craft glistenings are much like the Quilled Creations jewel tones. So you could go by what they appear to be, not what they’re known as. These papers I’m exhibiting you at present are darker metallic tones. The precise ones I utilized in my instance are amethyst, sapphire, golden topaz, and emerald. Click on right here to view a few of the metallic papers out there on Amazon.
These papers are darker tones and are a shiny beautiful metallic sheen on either side. However the edge does NOT have a metallic sheen. In reality, in case you take a look at them from the highest it may be a bit troublesome to inform what colour it’s imagined to be:
You possibly can sort of inform they’re totally different colours, however if you’re additional away and the sunshine shouldn’t be vibrant it may be difficult to inform. Additionally, there isn’t a beautiful metallic shine from the highest view.
Nevertheless, don’t let that cease you from utilizing these in a body design! In case you are utilizing a darkish colour anyway, these can add fairly a particular contact. At first look it’s going to look similar to a darkish navy/purple/inexperienced tone, however when somebody appears extra intently they may see the metallic sheen on the aspect. Fairly spectacular!
Including Mica Watercolors
There’s one other means that you would be able to add a little bit additional shine to those papers and that’s through the use of mica watercolors (Listed here are the precise ones I exploit on this publish). The mica watercolors final a loooong time. All you could do is get a little bit eyeshade sponge moist, dab onto the paint colour of your alternative, and gently dab onto your paper quilling. Right here my daughter helps me by doing the portray:
Click on right here to view a few of the mica watercolors out there on Amazon.
As you’ll be able to see, with each the jeweltone quilling papers AND the mica watercolors you will get the metallic impact from each the aspect ANd the highest of your design! You possibly can select a shade that’s most much like your paper colour (as I did) or you’ll be able to select a completely totally different colour of watercolor for a singular impact.
Utilizing it for Jewellery
I can’t go away this publish with out sharing one other use on your jeweltone quilling papers, and that’s quilled jewellery! I discover that for some jewellery designs it’s the aspect of the paper that exhibits essentially the most. For these designs, these metallic papers are completely good! Listed here are a number of examples of designs that I made with these papers.
First up, listed below are some chain earrings made with the entire jeweltone quilling paper colours. From left to proper there may be golden topaz, citrine, amethyst, emerald, black pearl, and sapphire.
Listed here are some multi circle earrings made with golden topaz (click on right here for a free tutorial!):
And these eclectic circle earrings are produced from citrine. I like how they appear similar to copper!
Have you ever used these jeweltone quilling papers or comparable papers for paper quilling? I’d love to listen to what you want to make use of them for, and be happy to depart a hyperlink to any challenge that you just made with these, or publish a photograph on my fb web page to share with everybody!
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